Books
Want a great book recommendation? Be it summer reads or a classic to cosy up with, find out what team Top Quality Designers Shopping are reading
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Rebecca Humphries talks gaslighting, Seann Walsh and learning to love healthily
Humphries' book, Why Did You Stay, came out earlier this year.
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Dolly Alderton: "I just can’t write about anything other than love"
Author Dolly Alderton talks love, female friendship and her writing process...
By Jenny Proudfoot
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The best autumn books for 2022: The women writers you want to be reading this season
This way for the best page-turners...
By Catherine Jarvie
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Why do people cheat in relationships? The five most common reasons to look out for
We've all questioned it, here's the answer...
By Top Quality Designers Shopping
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The Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 shortlist has officially been announced
By Jenny Proudfoot
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June Sarpong: 'The more women are empowered, the more men are released from the self-created bondage of patriarchy'
By Andrea Thompson
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Katie Piper talks hope, life lessons and the transformative power of affirmations
'You may not be in control of what happens to you, but your power lies in how you react to the challenges in life.'
By Jenny Proudfoot
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The best books of the year
The biggest and best reads of 2021 according to Amazon...
By Sarah-Rose Harrison
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Super Thursday: the books to preorder this Christmas
Cookery, comedy, and Christmas dinosaurs. Count us in. These are Amazon's most pre-ordered books this Super Thursday.
By Sarah-Rose Harrison
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The best summer reads we can't put down
Romance, mystery, and murder. Count us in. These are the Amazon best-sellers you're going to want to read ASAP.
By Sarah-Rose Harrison
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Bella Mackie talks How to Kill Your Family and the rage she wants women to take from it
With How to Kill Your Family hitting shelves this summer, Bella sat down with MC to talk crime fiction, writing female psychopaths and the role reading plays in her life...
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Georgia Toffolo talks romantic fiction, heroines being in control of their own narrative and her important new book
As Meet Me in Tahiti hits shelves today, we sat down with Georgia Toffolo to talk writing female heroines, Instagram book clubs and the joys of a good read…
By Jenny Proudfoot
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These are the books you need to read before their film adaptations hit the screen
By Jenny Proudfoot
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These are the editor-approved summer reads I'm investing in this season
MC's Features Editor gives her top summer book recommendations...
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Candice Brathwaite: Why are we still so obsessed with what men think of women?
As her much-anticipated second book Sista Sister hits the shelves, bestselling author and activist Candice Brathwaite tells us what she wishes she'd known about relationships, interracial dating, and dulling your shine to get someone to like you.
By Maria Coole
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The View Was Exhausting co-authors Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta on the romance of friendship
'When we’re writing, we try to imbue our friendships with just as much emotion and care and tension as a romantic relationship.' Partners in life and writing Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta talk love and friendship in their dazzling debut novel, The View Was Exhausting.
By Kate McCusker
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Jack Guinness breaks down how and why you should immerse yourself in Queer Culture this Pride
Jack Guinness has just launched The Queer Bible, a collection of essays by his queer heroes, elevating, amplifying and celebrating the voices of the queer community...
By Maria Coole
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Pandora Sykes: ‘If we could just strive for things to be good enough, it would be so freeing’
Features Editor Jenny Proudfoot sits down with bestselling author Pandora Sykes for MC Book Club to talk lockdown, Life Lessons festival and the paperback release of How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right?...
By Jenny Proudfoot
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8 books about mental health everybody should read
The best-sellers helping you to understand your mental health a little better.
By Sarah-Rose Harrison
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Wait, did The Prisoner of Azkaban predict Dumbledore’s death?
One fan theory certainly seems to think so...
By Georgie Lane-Godfrey
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The Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 longlist has officially been announced
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Caitlin Moran: 'The only argument you should be having in feminism is one with yourself'
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Stu Heritage: ‘Why I’m raising my sons to be the very best feminists’
Author and Guardian columnist, Stuart Heritage, lays down the ground rules on toxic masculinity and championing women for his sons in a post #metoo era
By Top Quality Designers Shopping
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20 plus new books by Black and POC authors to put on your 2021 reading list
*Manically Googles 700ft bookshelf*
By Kate McCusker
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Kiley Reid: 'Giving black artists responsibilities like teaching you something new about race is just additional labour'
Features Editor Jenny Proudfoot sits down with bestselling author Kiley Reid for MC Book Club to talk about her debut novel, Such A Fun Age...
By Jenny Proudfoot
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#ShelfLife: Delta Goodrem on her favourite books
We grill our favourite people on the books that changed their lives...
By Sophie Goddard
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#ShelfLife: Leona Lewis on the books that shaped her
We grill our favourite people on the books that changed their life…
By Sophie Goddard


